Do online casino customers also enjoy role-player game card games?
Executives at sweepstakes gaming company B-Two Operations sure hope so.
In the latest and arguably most creative response to market restrictions eliminating Sweeps Coin gameplay in several jurisdictions in 2025, most notably California (starting Jan. 1) and New York (right now), the sweeps operator behind the likes of McLuck and Hello Millions has launched Card Crush, which can best be described as an online sweeps casino version of World of Warcraft with inventive ways to offer something similar to the Sweeps Coin casino gameplay being outlawed by new laws in states like California and New York.
And here’s the kicker: Card Crush is only legal in California and New York. It is not operational anywhere else in the United States.
Sounds intriguing, right?
Let’s get into it.
How Card Crush works
When you first access cardcrush.com, it appears 100% to be an RPG card game site, as the promo image markets a Mystery Box next to a graphic of gold- and silver-plated treasure chests with different RPG cards behind them (like one that looks like a wizard labeled World Druid — and it has a speed of 6 and a Legendary classification).
But then you look to the left of those chests and cards, and you see stacks of green coins.
And that’s when you realize there may be more at play here.
Scroll down, and you’ll see information about online slot games and online table games players can play at this RPG gaming site, as well.
So what’s going on here?
B-Two Operations, which owns McLuck, Hello Millions, PlayFame, SpinBlitz, Mega Bonanza, and Jackpota, has created a peer-to-peer RPG card game that, again, mimics World of Warcraft or, in more simple models, Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh. Matches involve five rounds with two players pitting their best five-card selections against each other.
A player’s goal is to assemble the best deck of cards possible to win as many head-to-head battles as possible in order to climb the leaderboard.
By increasing their rank and ascending the tiers of the leaderboard, a player accumulates Loyalty Club Points. The more points you have, the better your cards become — and the more Mystery Coins you receive. A player can also purchase a Mystery Box, which comes with cards to add to their deck and a number of Mystery Coins.
These Mystery Coins can then be used to play the online casino games at Card Crush, which says it’s only for players 21 and older and promotes that it offers games from Evoplay and Ruby Play. And these Mystery Coins can also be redeemed for cash, just like Sweeps Coins on traditional sweepstakes casinos.
An RPG card game does not ‘simulate gambling’
B-Two Operations is attempting to get around the “dual-currency” language in the bans in California and New York because there is only a single currency in the game: Mystery Coins. The only other object of value in Card Crush are the cards, and these are not a form of currency in the game and cannot be used for the online casino games.
There are inherent similarities to the traditional sweeps casino gameplay model — purchasing Mystery Boxes to receive Mystery Coins is similar to purchasing Gold Coin packages to receive Sweeps Coins — but there are also key differences that may technically allow Card Crush to operate legally under the new laws in California and New York.
For instance: B-Two Operations has also created a rewards system — its Loyalty Club — that awards players with Mystery Coins simply for their normal gameplay and rising the ranks of the leaderboard. This is somewhat similar to the Modo Stars rewards system that Modo.us plans to unveil Jan. 1, where players will receive rewards for their Gold Coin gameplay in the same way players at PLAYSTUDIOS social casino games get rewarded with things like cruises, hotel stays, or concert tickets.
Another one of those key differences? (And this one is crucial … )
The engine of Card Crush is an RPG card game, a type of game that is not covered in any aspect of the language in California Assembly Bill 831 or New York Senate Bill 5935.
AB831 bans sweeps games that “simulate gambling, which, for purposes of this section, includes, but is not limited to, slot machines; video poker; table games, including, but not limited to, blackjack, roulette, craps, and poker; lottery games as defined in Section 319 of the Penal Code; bingo; sports wagering, or any game that mimics or simulates similar gambling.”
No mention of Pokemon-style card games.
And SB5935 bans any sweeps game that “simulates casino-style gaming, including but not limited to, slot machines, video poker, table games, lottery games, bingo, or sports wagering.”
Again, Card Crush — with its Fern Dragon, Ice Cub and Pyre Druid cards among those leading the gameplay action — may evade the law here.
How other sweeps operators are changing their offerings
Although perhaps not in such a drastic fashion as B-Two Operations, other operators are responding in their own ways to sweeps gaming market restrictions, with five states outlawing dual-currency play and others firing off cease-and-desist letters.
Some are layering on new ideas. Again, Modo.us is expanding its ecosystem to include a rewards program, while MyPrize.us went further, becoming the first sweeps brand to publicly pivot into prediction markets through a partnership with Crypto.com. (Although MyPrize Markets haven’t launched yet.)
At the scale end of the spectrum, VGW is expanding and consolidating at the same time. For consolidation, the company is unifying its technology stack to power all of its brands. For expansion, VGW now has five brands in its library — Chumba Casino, Global Poker, LuckyLand Slots, the newly launched LuckyLand Casino, and United Slots, slated for early 2026.
Elsewhere, operators are experimenting with alternative formats. Industry chatter points to possible moves into historical horse racing, live race results, and bingo.
Back in September, ClubWPT Gold pulled something similar to the Mystery Coins/Cards dynamic in Card Crush: It ditched the Gold Coin/Sweeps Coin structure and replaced it with a single currency called Chips that can be redeemed for cash. And then the site now sells poker training tools and bundles Chips alongside them — recasting itself as an educational platform rather than a sweepstakes casino.
There’s also a model worth watching overseas. In the United Kingdom, Sweepmate is running paid prediction contests with shared prize pools covering everything from sports to reality TV and elections — essentially DFS meets prediction markets.
What are the implications?
If Card Crush pans out in California and New York, it opens up a Pandora’s box of possibilities for sweeps casinos.
Want an engine for players to acquire a single currency similar to Sweeps Coins?
Find a game you think sweeps casino players would also be interested in — like an RPG card game, or perhaps trivia, Tetris-style games, etc. — and use that as the base engine for your new gameplay model, with the casino-style games as a critical back-burner item.
It’s all theoretical at this point, though, as we’ll see how things pan out in California and New York for Card Crush. It’s notable B-Two Operations did not launch the site in other newly illegal states in 2025 — New Jersey, Connecticut, and Montana — as the company is perhaps testing the waters and focusing on the highest-reward markets.
